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Are these B.C. crabs losing their sense of smell?

Are these B.C. crabs losing their sense of smell?

The survival skills of B.C.'s Dungeness crabs are under threat as their sense of smell appears to weaken amid acidifying seas, Canadian researchers have found.
Victoria dinosaur museum is a hands-on experience

Victoria dinosaur museum is a hands-on experience

A private museum at Dino Lab, which is in the process of moving to James Bay, offers a glimpse at the work the company does turning bones into full dinosaur skeletons
Dino makers: Victoria company brings dinosaurs bones to life

Dino makers: Victoria company brings dinosaurs bones to life

Dino Lab is one of only a handful of companies in North America that do the painstakingly work of separating dinosaur bones from rock, creating the missing pieces using 3-D printers and delivering full-size, mounted skeletons
Our Community: Totem pole honouring Indigenous veterans rededicated

Our Community: Totem pole honouring Indigenous veterans rededicated

Broadmead Care recently held a a rededication ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the raising of the totem pole at Veterans Memorial Lodge.
Geoff Johnson: Calls to action on Indigenous education also benefit non-Indigenous students

Geoff Johnson: Calls to action on Indigenous education also benefit non-Indigenous students

Education of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students has a key role to play in long-term reconciliation
Monique Keiran: We need to stay on guard against invasive giant hornets

Monique Keiran: We need to stay on guard against invasive giant hornets

Officials reported late last year, after months-long cross-border surveillance and trapping, that no more of the hornets had been found in B.C. or Washington, but the risk hasn’t gone away
Charla Huber: Let's get back to pre-pandemic values

Charla Huber: Let's get back to pre-pandemic values

The pandemic pushed issues like self-care and mental health into the mainstream, but when the lens is so focused on the individual, it can create a blindness to how we interact with others
B.C. scientists eavesdropping on fish to fathom their underwater secrets

B.C. scientists eavesdropping on fish to fathom their underwater secrets

New technology is allowing researchers to covertly monitor, record and identify the sounds fish make underwater to try to unravel their deepest secrets.
Research finds some Pacific salmon migration out of sync with food supply

Research finds some Pacific salmon migration out of sync with food supply

"The coastal ocean is changing in one way and Pacific salmon are changing in a myriad of other ways and those ways don't always align," says lead author Sam Wilson, a post-doctoral researcher in the salmon watersheds lab at SFU. 
Our Community: Victoria student earns prestigious Loran Award, Highland Games return

Our Community: Victoria student earns prestigious Loran Award, Highland Games return

Vic High Grade 12 student has been named a 2023 Loran Scholar, Highland Games set to return, starting with a parade next weekend
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